Put the firework back together
Unring the bell
Gather up the shreds of scream
Push it back behind your tongue

A second look
Is not the first
And you’ve changed
Since then.

-Jen Kohan

“What a cache of treasures this collection is, what a cache of jewels. […] All are reminders of what the best, briefest poems can do: give back the world to us, as it passes, in the mirror of a few well-chosen words.”

-Cecilia Woloch

Other posts from Bigger Than They Appear:

• “A Poet’s Night” by A. H. Jerriod Avant
• “Subjubctive” by Andrew Merton
• “A Day at the Chemo Spa” by Cristina Trapani-Scott
• “January Wind/Isaiah” by Martha Gehringer
• “Match-Made” by Dariel Suarez
  

Jen Kohan is a writer and writing teacher based in Minneapolis. Her poetry has appeared in Audemus, and creative nonfiction in Break the Silence.